naked

butt naked

slang Entirely nude, especially in others' view. Possibly a variation of "buck naked," though both mean the same and are correct in use. My roommate is so embarrassing, always walking around the house butt naked!

half-naked

Partially undressed. The phrase is sometimes used hyperbolically by someone who considers another's attire not conservative enough. Thinking only my mom was outside, I came out of the dressing room half-naked and, to my horror, saw some older girls from school.You can't wear shorts like that to church, you look half-naked! Go change right now!

buck naked

slang Entirely nude, especially in others' view. My roommate is so embarrassing, always walking around the house buck naked!

stark naked

Completely naked. I keep having the dream where I walk into my classroom and realize I've forgotten my homework—and that I'm stark naked!We've all come into this world the hard way—stark naked and screaming!

the naked eye

Normal vision that has not been enhanced or augmented in any way. Because bacteria are invisible to the naked eye, it was only relatively recently in human history that we even became aware of their existence.The fine print is so tiny, you can barely make it out with the naked eye.

the naked truth

The total, unembellished, and unaltered truth. Used especially to something that someone may consider unpleasant or offensive. While they were created with good intentions, the naked truth is that these policies have set back our economic recovery by at least another five years.

as naked as the day (one) was born

slang Completely nude; without any clothes on whatsoever. My roommate is so embarrassing, always walking around the house naked as the day he was born!We have an adorable video of you when you were about two years old, running around the back yard as naked as the day you were born!

(as) naked as a jaybird

slang Completely nude; without any clothes on whatsoever. My roommate is so embarrassing, always walking around the house naked as a jaybird!We have an adorable video of you when you were about two years old, running around the back yard as naked as a jaybird!

get naked

1. To take all of one's clothing off so that one is nude. That's what skinny-dipping means—you have to get naked!

2. slang To do something enjoyable and/or relaxing; to let loose and have a good time. (Doing so does not usually entail being naked, despite the wording of the phrase.) It's been such a long week—let's just get naked tonight.

*naked as a jaybird

Cliché naked; bare. (*Also: as ~.) Two-year-old Matilda escaped from her nurse, who was bathing her, and ran out naked as a jaybird into the dining room.Uncle John sometimes spends a whole day walking around his house as naked as a jaybird.

*naked eye

the human eye, unassisted by optics, such as a telescope, microscope, or spectacles. (*Typically: appear to ~; look to ~; see with ~; visible to~.) I can't see the bird's markings with the naked eye.The scientist could see nothing in the liquid with the naked eye, but with the aid of a microscope, she identified the bacteria.That's how it appears to the naked eye.

with the naked eye

naked as a jaybird

Bare, unclothed, as in I came straight out of the shower, naked as a jaybird. This simile replaced the 19th-century naked as a robin and is equally unclear, since neither bird is normally stripped of its feathers. Further, the bird it refers to is more often called simply "jay" rather than "jaybird," yet the latter is always part of the simile. [c. 1940]

naked truth

Plain unadorned facts, without concealment or embellishment. For example, What I've told you is the naked truth. This expression supposedly alludes to a fable in which Truth and Falsehood went bathing, Falsehood then dressed in Truth's clothes, and Truth, refusing to take another's clothes, went naked. [Late 1500s]

the naked eye

COMMON If something can be seen with the naked eye, you can see it without the help of equipment such as a telescope or microscope. These green insects, just visible to the naked eye, are generally found on the under side of the leaves.Enough light gets through space for us to see thousands of stars with the naked eye.

the naked truth

the plain truth, without concealment or embellishment.

This phrase may originally have developed as a translation of the Latin phrase nudaque veritas , found in Horace'sOdes, or to any of various fables that personify Truth as a naked woman in contrast to the elaborate dress and artifice of Falsehood.

naked truth

naked as a jaybird

Stark naked. Why, of all ornithological species, should a jaybird be singled out for its nudity? One explanation is that “jay” was a 19th-century word for a country bumpkin, and since bumpkins were vulnerable to the wiles of others, a jaybird would be vulnerable indeed.

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester in New York and the University of Haifa found the naked mole rat's unique mechanism - a super sugar called high-molecular-mass Hyaluronan (HMM-HA).

The naked rights activist left Southampton Magistrates' Court on February 28 after being handed the interim order and walked naked to the road where he was arrested still holding the order saying he must cover his buttocks and genitalia.

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